
Pop Out
Queer Warhol
Duke University Press
Will be published approx. on 23. February 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-8223-1741-8 (ISBN)
Description
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory. Yet even though Warhol became the star of postmodernism, avant-garde, and pop culture, this collection of essays is the first to explore, analyze, appreciate, and celebrate the role of Warhol's queerness in the making and reception of his film and art. Ranging widely in approach and discipline, Pop Out demonstrates that to ignore Warhol's queerness is to miss what is most valuable, interesting, sexy, and political about his life and work.
Written from the perspectives of art history, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, cinema studies, and social and literary theory, these essays consider Warhol in various contexts and within the history of the communities in which he figured. The homoerotic subjects, gay audiences, and queer contexts that fuel a certain fascination with Warhol are discussed, as well as Batman, Basquiat, and Valerie Solanas. Taken together, the essays in this collection depict Warhol's career as a practical social reflection on a wide range of institutions and discourses, including those, from the art world to mass culture, that have almost succeeded in sanitizing his work and his image. Contributors. Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, Marcie Frank, David E. James, Mandy Merck, Michael Moon, JosE Esteban MuNoz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Brian Selsky, Sasha Torres, Simon Watney, Thomas Waugh
Written from the perspectives of art history, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, cinema studies, and social and literary theory, these essays consider Warhol in various contexts and within the history of the communities in which he figured. The homoerotic subjects, gay audiences, and queer contexts that fuel a certain fascination with Warhol are discussed, as well as Batman, Basquiat, and Valerie Solanas. Taken together, the essays in this collection depict Warhol's career as a practical social reflection on a wide range of institutions and discourses, including those, from the art world to mass culture, that have almost succeeded in sanitizing his work and his image. Contributors. Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, Marcie Frank, David E. James, Mandy Merck, Michael Moon, JosE Esteban MuNoz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Brian Selsky, Sasha Torres, Simon Watney, Thomas Waugh
Reviews / Votes
"Pop Out fulfills its fabulous mission-to reclaim Andy Warhol as a queer artist/icon-with a painterly thoroughness. Andy would have said it best: 'Gre-e-eat!'"-Michael MustoMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
53 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-1741-8 (9780822317418)
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Persons
Jennifer Doyle is Assistant Professor of Engish at the University of California, Riverside.
Jonathan Flatley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
JosE Esteban MuNoz is Associate Professor in Performance Studies at New York University.
Jonathan Flatley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
JosE Esteban MuNoz is Associate Professor in Performance Studies at New York University.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, JosE Esteban MuNoz
Queer Andy / Simon Watney
I'll Be Your Mirror Stage: Andy Warhol in the Cultural Imaginary / David E. James
Cockteaser / Thomas Waugh
Screen Memories, or, Pop Comes from the Outside: Warhol and Queer Childhood / Michael Moon
Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopoeia / Jonathan Flatley
Queer Performativity: Warhol's Shyness/Warhol's Whiteness / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Famous and Dandy Like B. 'n' Andy: Race, Pop, and Basquiat / JosE Esteban MuNoz
"I Dream of Genius . . . " / Brian Selsky
Tricks of the Trade: Pop Art/Pop Sex / Jennifer Doyle
Popping Off Warhol: From the Gutter to the Underground and Beyond / Marcie Frank
Figuring Out Andy Warhol / Mandy Merck
The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series / Sasha Torres
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Introduction / Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, JosE Esteban MuNoz
Queer Andy / Simon Watney
I'll Be Your Mirror Stage: Andy Warhol in the Cultural Imaginary / David E. James
Cockteaser / Thomas Waugh
Screen Memories, or, Pop Comes from the Outside: Warhol and Queer Childhood / Michael Moon
Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopoeia / Jonathan Flatley
Queer Performativity: Warhol's Shyness/Warhol's Whiteness / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Famous and Dandy Like B. 'n' Andy: Race, Pop, and Basquiat / JosE Esteban MuNoz
"I Dream of Genius . . . " / Brian Selsky
Tricks of the Trade: Pop Art/Pop Sex / Jennifer Doyle
Popping Off Warhol: From the Gutter to the Underground and Beyond / Marcie Frank
Figuring Out Andy Warhol / Mandy Merck
The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series / Sasha Torres
Bibliography
Contributors
Index